The Call: Well Traveled — Cheryl Years ago, when I was in college, my aunt found this desk in the alley behind her Boston apartment. Since her tiny place was stuffed to the gills, she saved it for me. It traveled up to my parents’ house in Maine, then down to Dennis’s folks’ house in […]

The Call: Legos are Everywhere — Cheryl My house is bursting with evidence that children live here. The Response: Toys — Jessica With lots of children, come lots of toys — round every bend, under every footstep.

The Call: Henry and a Good Book — Cheryl O dear Jesus, I humbly implore you to grant your special graces to our family. May our home be a shrine of peace, purity, love, labor, and faith. I beg you, dear Jesus, to protect and bless all of us, absent and present, living and dead. […]